Math Trek is an alternate reality game (ARG). You can play it with your group, for one day or a year. Here is how we play in Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA.
Peacefully Parkouring Pythagoras topic quests, first played 03/22/2011
Spring I game series 01/25/2011-02/28/2011
LINES Topic Quests, first played 01/25/2011
The progression to complexity worked well. Everybody was able to find one line, then two lines, then many, and then the abstract idea of the infinite.
Me and a celebrity line (tag celebrityline)
Between the lines (tag betweenthelines)
Lots of lines (tag lotsoflines)
The edgy line (tag edgyline)
To infinity and beyond (tag infinityline)
SQUARES&FRIENDS topic quests, first played 02/01/2011
Player questions:
Is a circle a polygon? Is a leaf a polygon - it sort of has angles? What is "tessellation"? Why do some shapes tessellate and others do not?
Note: slideshows glitch in some browsers; we are working to fix the issue.
Square in the sky with diamonds (tag thelonelysquare)
One, two, many (tag triangulation)
A romance in many dimensions (tag polyhedriality)
The nature loves the culture (tag naturalpolygons)
To infinity and beyond (tag tessellations)
SHAPES IN/ON SHAPES topic quests, first played 02/08/2011
Triangles on triangles (tag: overlap)
Circles in circles (tag: contain)
Scribe: a top 10 profession for 1011AD (tag: inscribe)
Triangulation, reloaded (tag: triangulation)
To infinity and beyond (tag: fibonacciforever)
VARIABLES topic quests, first played 02/15/2011
Thousands of stars pictures - guess which tag!
ANGLEFUL topic quests, first played 02/21/2011
Angleful pictures - guess which tag!
CURVES topic quests, first played 02/28/2011
This game had the spell and magic theme. The goal was to make up gestures and words for spells that did something related to particular curves. So, participants got to tell stories and to act them out, based on math prompts.
Curves pictures - guess which tag!
Gameplay
Topic Quests
Topic quests are the heart of the game. Playing with one math idea for a while means noticing more subtle, more general, more detailed properties of the idea: "growing math eyes."
Topic suggestions
Suggesting a topic is an achievement at Level 3. You can suggest a topic at a meeting or reply to the Flickr discussion.
Squares (Sally) - first played 02/01/2011
Circles in circles (Biter Freak) - first played 02/08/2011
Triangles on triangles (LeapDancer) - first played 02/08/2011
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Math Trek is an alternate reality game (ARG). You can play it with your group, for one day or a year. Here is how we play in Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA.
The game uses Flickr group for photos.
To join, contact the game master MariaD: droujkova@gmail.com
Subscribe to email group http://groups.google.com/group/mathtrek-announce
Spring II game series 03/15/2011-
Fibonacci the Geek topic quests, first played 03/15/2011
Post your fibs at the Flickr group! http://www.flickr.com/groups/mathtrektriangle/discuss/72157626248010973/
Peacefully Parkouring Pythagoras topic quests, first played 03/22/2011
Spring I game series 01/25/2011-02/28/2011
LINES Topic Quests, first played 01/25/2011
The progression to complexity worked well. Everybody was able to find one line, then two lines, then many, and then the abstract idea of the infinite.Me and a celebrity line (tag celebrityline)
Between the lines (tag betweenthelines)
Lots of lines (tag lotsoflines)
The edgy line (tag edgyline)
To infinity and beyond (tag infinityline)
SQUARES&FRIENDS topic quests, first played 02/01/2011
Player questions:Is a circle a polygon? Is a leaf a polygon - it sort of has angles? What is "tessellation"? Why do some shapes tessellate and others do not?
Note: slideshows glitch in some browsers; we are working to fix the issue.
Square in the sky with diamonds (tag thelonelysquare)
One, two, many (tag triangulation)
A romance in many dimensions (tag polyhedriality)
The nature loves the culture (tag naturalpolygons)
To infinity and beyond (tag tessellations)
SHAPES IN/ON SHAPES topic quests, first played 02/08/2011
Triangles on triangles (tag: overlap)
Circles in circles (tag: contain)
Scribe: a top 10 profession for 1011AD (tag: inscribe)
Triangulation, reloaded (tag: triangulation)
To infinity and beyond (tag: fibonacciforever)
VARIABLES topic quests, first played 02/15/2011
Thousands of stars pictures - guess which tag!
ANGLEFUL topic quests, first played 02/21/2011
Angleful pictures - guess which tag!
CURVES topic quests, first played 02/28/2011
This game had the spell and magic theme. The goal was to make up gestures and words for spells that did something related to particular curves. So, participants got to tell stories and to act them out, based on math prompts.Curves pictures - guess which tag!
Gameplay
Topic Quests
Topic quests are the heart of the game. Playing with one math idea for a while means noticing more subtle, more general, more detailed properties of the idea: "growing math eyes."Topic suggestions
Suggesting a topic is an achievement at Level 3. You can suggest a topic at a meeting or reply to the Flickr discussion.Achievements for Level ------- (1)
Level name suggestions:
Achievements for Out of Order Level (2)
Achievements for Orange Level (3)
Achievements for Sauron Level (4)
Character table by levels